Furniture-drawer



L t e e h s W e e h s 2 m m MR R W -n N nR 0U hi a d o M o w No. 468,684. Patented Feb. 9, 1892.

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Patented Feb. 9, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR A. NORMAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

FURNITURE-DRAWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 468,684, dated February 1892- Serial No. 385,733. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OSCAR A. NORMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of )oston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Furniture-Drawers,of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to that type of furniture-drawers wherein the article of furniture is provided with a guide in which moves a slide acted upon by the drawer in such manner that when the drawer is withdrawn it is supported in a horizontal position.

The objects of my invention are to avoid the use of spring-stops, to simplify the construction of parts, and to provide novel, eflicient, and economical means for enabling the drawer to be entirely withdrawn from the case or article of furniture and supported in a horizontal position.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view, showing the drawer closed. Fig. 2 represents a plan View, showing the drawer as pulled out. Fig. 3 represents a cross-section on the line X X, shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 represents a crosssection on the line Y Y, also shown in Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 represents a perspective of the drawer guide and support.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

A represents apiece of furniture or case of any description, and B represents a drawer adapted to slide out and in of such case, as shown.

a is the bottom of the case A, to which are secured the grooved guide-bars C O in sets of two or more pairs, according to the width of the drawer. In each such set of guide-bars is loosely movable a slide D, having a longitudinal groove cl on its upper side, as shown in\ Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5. The slide D is limited in its outward motion by means of a pin a, pass ing through the furniture bottom CL and entering a groove 01 in the under side of the slide D, as shown in Fig. 3.

To the under side of the drawer 13 is secured a rib 12, adapted to slide in the groove cl during the opening and closing movement of the drawer. To the rear of the drawer 13 is secured a downwardly-projecting hook I), the lower part of which projects into the groove (Z on the slide D, as shown in F1gs.3 and at, and hooks under a bridge-plate d, secured crosswise on the slide D, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5 and in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

B, i Fi 1,2, and 3, is a pull or handle, as usual, secured to the front. of the drawer, by means of which it is manipulated.

The hook b, traveling in the groove (Z of the slide D, performs two functions in that it is guided in the groove, and when the drawer is withdrawn the hook interlocks with the bridge-piece d for the purpose of preventing the rear portion of the drawerfrom rlsing upwardly, so that the drawer cannot be displaced vertically.

The operation of the device is as follows: As the drawer is being pulled out, the ho oks b b will look under the bridge-plate d d on the slides D D, causing the latter to partake of the outward motion of the drawer until stopped by the limit-pins a, leaving the drawer pulled out its entire length and supported on the slides D D, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, while its rear portion is held down by the hook Z) interlocking with or engaging under the bridge-piece (1. As the drawer is pushed in, its lower front portion comes in contact with theslides D D and pushes them into the case or furniture A.

Having thus fullydescribed the nature, construction, and operation of my invention, I wish to secure by LettersPatent, and claim 1. The combination, with a case A. and a drawer B, of parallel guides C, secured to the case beneath the drawer, the slide D, moving between the guides and havingalongitudinal groove d in its upper surface, which is spanned bya rigidly-attached bridge-piece (Z, and a hook Z2, secured to the rear end of the drawer and moving in the groove of the slide to interlock with the rigidly-attach ed bridge-piece and thereby prevent any rising movement of the drawer at its rear when completely withdrawn from the case, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the case A having a bottom a, provided with a rigid stop-pin a, the drawer B, the parallel guide 0, secured to the case beneath the drawer, the slide D, moving beneath the guides and having the longitudinal grooves 01 d formed, respectively, in its upper and lower surfaces, with the groove in the lower surface engaging the rigid stop- .pin, the bridge-piece d, rigidly attached to the slide and spanning the groove in the upper side thereof, and the hook 79', secured to the rear end of the drawer and moving in the groove in the upper side of the slide to interlock with the bridge-piece and thereby prevent rising movement of the drawer at its rear when completely Withdrawn from the case, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of I5 two subscribing witnesses, on this 16th day of March, A. D. 1891.

OSCAR A. NORMAN.

Witnesses:

WM. CLARBER, E. M. FITZ GERALD. 

